TITLE:
GifAway
This is a simple utility to convert gif animations to series of images more useful to Allegro, and less patent encumbered.

USAGE:
gifaway file.gif bmp
will change all frames of file.gif to files of the format file.gifN.bmp where N is the frame number. "bmp" can be replaced with any other format allegro in which can save (specifically: pcx or tga).

This program will also generate file.gifINFO.txt which is a very simplistic textfile listing the number of frames in the gif followed by each frame's duration.  Each value has its own line.  Durations are expressed in hundredths of a second -- 100 == 1 second.

ADDITIONAL FEATURES:
if you append " t" to the command line (e.g. "gifaway file.gif bmp t"), the program will, for each frame, replace all pixels with the same color as the pixel at 0,0 (the top-left corner) with magic pink pixels (255, 0, 255).

HELP; IT ASKS FOR A DLL!!!:
If you are not an allegro user, you may also need alleg40.dll -- this can be downloaded, with nifty installer thing, from http://www.allegro.cc/files/4.0.3/allegro-enduser-4.0.3-win32.exe

CREDITS:
load_gif.c and gif.h are slightly modified versions of those files found in the Allegro GIF Animation Library at http://www.allegro.cc/depot/project.php?_id=648

gifaway.cpp & small modifications to load_gif library are by Zaphos.  If you have questions, or something is broken, PM me at allegro.cc.